MLB to Impose Media Dress Code, Restrict Skirt Lengths.

MLB to Impose Media Dress Code, Restrict Skirt Lengths.

Flight attendants announce over the PA system for everyone to please take their seats when we all know one dawdling, unmindful person standing is the target. MLB’s new dress code has a strong whiff of that. The league has new sartorial regulations for media members, beginning next season. They maintain this is not a response to any single incident.

Media members must wear attire suitable for a “business casual work environment.” Flip-flops and tank-tops are a no go, as are see-through clothing and “visible undergarments.” No midriff exposure. No more Canseco-style mesh shirts on August day-games in Houston. We’re guessing most male media members, following a trip to Costco, can handle the collared shirt, pants with a belt and shoes look.

There’s nothing wrong with a “business casual work environment.” Where we are concerned is directly targeting female sexuality. MLB now requires skirts to not be more than 3-4 inches above the knee. Will Bud Selig post grizzly nuns with Coke cans at media entrances to enforce this?

Such regulations are couched in language such as “appropriate” and “professional,” when they are really a system of patriarchal control. MLB is instituting the policy to prevent “incidents,” presumably of the sexual harassment nature. However, this absolves responsibility for said incidents from the harassers, men, and places it upon the victims, women. This portrays men, particularly those in baseball uniforms, are wanton, lustful beasts. Any woman who looks attractive is asking for whatever comes for her. This outlook is wrong and outmoded.

Professionalism is dressing sensibly and leaving the six-inch lucite heels at home. It’s also behaving professionally and, more than 40 years after women’s liberation began, learning to deal with women equally in the workplace as women. Bare shoulders or a little bit of leg in a sundress need not devolve into giggles, leering, catty comments on twitter and media pandemonium. That’s on men.

Anyone who has ever worked for an employer with a “business professional” dress code knows that women have far more options in regards to dress.

http://twitter.com/#!/claytoncargill Gaseous Clay

sorry, but I still contend that the sundress EA wore that one time had every guy within 100 feet thinking about nothing but bending her over.

http://twitter.com/#!/JHScramble Jim Harbaugh Scramble

Bird Selig pic needs to be re-captioned.

http://www.thevictoryformation.com HuskerDawg

Anything about tight fitting jeans on females reporters that make my own jeans fit tighter?

That ass is epic.

Some Random Old Dude

Heck yes on flip-flops. Most peoples’ feet are so beat up they shouldn’t be seen in public.

Also, I hate the sound they make when people are walking around – that fap, fap, fap (minds out of the gutter, people).

Yes, I have an irrational hatred of flip-flops. To me, they are a small symbol of the continual downward slide of our society.

The whole “you can’t tell me nothin'” mindset we have, to me, is summed up in seeing someone here in flip-flops on a 20-degree day.

/rant over

KingGrizz

Just changed the dress code at the office — “Dress Sandals” are now allowed for men. Don’t quite know what that means — Tevas?

http://www.thevictoryformation.com HuskerDawg

Yes, I have an irrational hatred of flip-flops. To me, they are a small symbol of the continual downward slide of our society.

Bob Costas just got hard reading this line.

http://www.h8torade.com PL StabbinKabin

That ass is epic.

It is absolutely flawless.

http://twitter.com/#!/JHScramble Jim Harbaugh Scramble

Yes, I have an irrational hatred of flip-flops. To me, they are a small symbol of the continual downward slide of our society.

I hated them till I moved to Florida. Now they are a must.

johndewar

Professionalism is dressing sensibly and leaving the six-inch lucite heels at home.

Dressing sensibly means different things to different people.

Nothing funnier than watching a woman, just out of college, dress up for work like she’s going to the club.

Career High

“Dress Sandals”

just say no to “Mandals”!

johndewar

Yes, I have an irrational hatred of flip-flops.

Flip flops are delightful.

People who wear socks with sandals, on the other hand…..

http://twitter.com/#!/sousedbergin sousedbergin

/team dudes do not get to wear sandals in public

http://www.majorleaguejerk.com/ spencer096

Professionalism is dressing sensibly and leaving the six-inch lucite heels at home.

i know plenty of coworkers who have great wardrobes for their work attire and, yet, are as unprofessional as it gets. dressing respectably is part of the equation, no doubt, but it’s often just as much a sign of covering up being shitty at your job as it is professionalism.

then again, the traditional concept of “professionalism” that you’re referring to doesn’t apply to women…they’d be left at home along with those 6-inch heels you referenced.

http://twitter.com/mantis915 phillymantis915

Nothing funnier than watching a woman, just out of college, dress up for work like she’s going to the club.

I enjoy said woman dressing like she’s going to the club though since they know that they want every guy to look at them and more than likely they all will. I’ll keep it at that before HR gets involved.

Some Random Old Dude

Yes, I have an irrational hatred of flip-flops. To me, they are a small symbol of the continual downward slide of our society.

Bob Costas just got hard reading this line.

This just made me nauseous. Gack.

http://www.h8torade.com PL StabbinKabin

Yes, I have an irrational hatred of flip-flops.

oh fuck off. I would wear flip flops 365 days a year if i didn’t live in this god forsaken state.

sportsgal116

It is absolutely flawless.

Now now… you have not seen that ass naked. It could be more pock marked than Edward James Olmos’ face without the jean material covering it up.

http://i.imgur.com/6mQjo.gif VladimirCrouton

Rod Blago has Lego hair.

Some Random Old Dude

Yes, I have an irrational hatred of flip-flops.

oh fuck off.

Ow. That hurt.

KingGrizz

I like a nice pair of Reefs, especially if they are worn in.

Dental Dam

sorry, but I still contend that the sundress EA wore that one time had every guy within 100 feet thinking about nothing but bending her over.

It’s probably sad that I know exactly what you’re talking about here.

guinnessgirl13

Nothing funnier than watching a woman, just out of college, dress up for work like she’s going to the club.

There is a chick here in my office like that. Half of what she wears is so inapropriate. Heck she even got fake boobs.